check_road_status
Check whether a German motorway, B-road, or Land road is open, closed, or restricted now or soon by road or place; get current closures, jams, and traffic-camera details.
Instructions
If a motorway/B/Land road (NI, NW, HE, BW, MV, SN, TH; B also SH, BY, BE; pass Land/town as place) is open/closed/restricted now/soon; by place, jams, city/Land messages, Hamburg traffic cameras; lorry limits, Lang-Lkw (vehicle). Use when asked if a road's open/closed/gesperrt/passable, even now — "A8 in diesem Moment gesperrt?" — closures tonight/weekend, or Stau in a town (Köln). Do NOT use for a named motorway frei/clear (Ampel) or its jams/delays — check_autobahn_traffic; dated roadworks — find_roadworks_ahead; a named city street: not held, no call. ≤14 days/11 entries. Show attribution.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lat | No | Latitude in WGS 84, e.g. 48.137. Use with lon when the caller already holds coordinates; otherwise use place. | |
| lon | No | Longitude in WGS 84, e.g. 11.576. Use with lat; otherwise use place. | |
| road | No | One road: a German motorway, e.g. "A8"; a Bundesstraße in Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen or Thüringen, e.g. "B27"; or a Landes- or Staatsstraße in Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hessen, Baden-Württemberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen or Thüringen, e.g. "L1025" or "S296". "A8", "A 8" and "a8" are the same road. Use this whenever the person named a road — it is the only input that reaches the planned-works data, which is filed by road and section and carries no coordinates. When the person also says WHERE — a town or a Bundesland ("die B2 bei Potsdam", "L1025 in Niedersachsen") — pass that as place too: only sources for that Land answer, and a Land no source covers is named. L and S numbers repeat in every Land, so give the Land with them. Otherwise give exactly one of road, place, or lat+lon. | |
| limit | No | Maximum entries to return (1–11, default 10). By road, closures come first, then restrictions in force, then planned works; by place, nearest first. | |
| place | No | Where to look, as free text: a city ("München", "Munich"), a district or Kreis ("Kreis Fulda"), a Bundesland, a station or stop ("Hamburg Hbf"), a motorway junction ("AK Neufahrn"), or a street address with a house number ("Bahnhofstraße 12, 36037 Fulda"). A motorway number alone ("A7") resolves to the road, which has no single point — name a town or junction on it instead. Use this instead of coordinates whenever the person named a place. An address needs its town or postcode — a street and a number alone exist in many towns. Give either place OR lat+lon, never both. | |
| vehicle | No | Set ONLY when the person asks for a lorry (Lkw, truck, HGV) or a long lorry (Lang-Lkw, EuroCombi, Gigaliner): then the answer is where that vehicle may go, instead of closures. "long_lorry" with a road ("darf der Lang-Lkw auf die A7?") answers whether the road is in the long-lorry positive network; with a place, the network roads near it. "lorry" or "long_lorry" with a place ("Durchfahrtshöhe in Haan", "Lkw-Vorrangroute in Frankfurt", "Gewichtsgrenze in Bremen") answers the height, weight, width and lorry-ban signs near it, and the lorry priority routes, where a publisher holds them (NRW, Frankfurt RheinMain, Bremen). Omit for cars and for closures. | |
| language | No | Set this on every call to the language the person is writing in: "en" if they wrote English, "de" if they wrote German. Do not leave it out: it defaults to German ("de"), which is only the fallback when the language is genuinely unclear, so an English question sent without it is answered in German — a wrong answer. Place names, station names and road numbers are never translated in either language; in English the German term is kept in parentheses so the person recognises it on signs and in local apps. | de |
| horizon_days | No | Days ahead from now (0 = right now only, max 14, default 3). Only what was asked; count the days from today to the last day meant, both included: 0 for right now / jetzt / gerade; 1 for today, tonight, heute Abend; 2 for tomorrow; a weekday ("am Freitag") the days through it; "this weekend" the days through Sunday (Monday 7, Friday 3, Sunday 1); "next week" through next Sunday. A bare "is the A8 open?" asks for no window: omit it, never 0. Live closures, and by place the jams reported now, are always included. |